Overview
The role will assist the Demand & Supply Planning Manager in managing vendors and end-to-end inventory management to ensure continuous supply. You will be required to coordinate with multiple stakeholders to plan, analyze, organize, evaluates for the allocation process.
Responsibilities
- Perform end-to-end of the order cycle for Grocery inventory management including coordinating with the suppliers and distribution centres, to ensure timely delivery of goods to island-wide stores.
- Responsible for healthy on-shelf availability of inventories to meet customers' demands.
- Work closely with Planners on weekly demand forecasting activities, and plan and communicate weekly allocation to stores.
- Follow up on exceptions and costing in the system
- Work with flow-through suppliers to secure stocks for promotions and festive.
- Work closely with the suppliers for timely rebuy of all perishable SKUs and continuously improve on service level including van sales, DSP vendors.
- Responsible for optimising inventory levels to meet customer demand while minimising excess stock and improve stock holding by managing MOQs and delivery frequency.
- Work closely with the Commercial team and the distribution centres to anticipate and manage promotions, festive build-ups, new products, excess products, and discontinued items exit strategies.
- Work closely with the Commercial team to manage slow moving stocks and plan for timely clearance.
- Utilize demand forecasting, inventory analysis, and other data-driven insights to drive continuous improvement in replenishment processes and performance
- Monitor and track KPI, drive performance and perform root cause analysis
- Management of key upscale indent vendors.
- Ensure full compliance on processes and audit and highlight any exceptions.
About You / Qualifications
Degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics or equivalentMinimum 1 year of work experience in similar capacity.Experienced in forecasting, data analytics, inventory planning, supply chain concepts, statistical forecasting, and related processes.Proficient in advanced Microsoft Excel, Power Query, Power BI and analytical skills will be an added advantage.Knowledge of SAP and DC operational routines in Retail industry is an added advantage.Dynamic, self-motivated, and able to work under pressure.Strong analytical capability, negotiation, communication (spoken & written) and planning skills.Be careful - Don’t provide your bank or credit card details when applying for jobs. Don't transfer any money or complete suspicious online surveys. If you see something suspicious, report this job ad.
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